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by mjhay 9mo ago
Very much so. It was a little less untrue with older word embedding models* but that kind of semantic linearity never was a thing in practice. Word embedding models try to embed semantically similar words close to each other, but that does
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by mjhay 9mo ago
If a hot war pops off over Taiwan, affordable CPUs are going to be a ways down the list of my concerns
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by mjhay 10mo ago
Humans consuming it would be bad, but the animal cannibalism is what allows the prion diseases to proliferate in the first place. There never would have been a BSE outbreak in the first place if it weren’t for that.
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by mjhay 10mo ago
Cooking does not destroy prions to any significant extent. They’re even resistant to autoclaving. It’s one of the big reasons that prion diseases are so pernicious. The garbage feeding you describe could absolutely spread prion diseases for
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by mjhay 10mo ago
By Ayn Rand standards, Lampert did an excellent job with Sears. He personally made over a billion in profit from his original investment. https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2bsxn8l0u5yr6z...
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by mjhay 10mo ago
Quite rich how the capitalists are complaining about the hollowing-out of American industry - something they oversaw for these now-derided short-term profits. Fortunately we can keep the spreadsheet GDP growth going for at least a while lon
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by mjhay 10mo ago
There’s a big difference between “impossible” (it isn’t) and “practical” (it isn’t).
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by mjhay 10mo ago
Orbital data centers are impractical for a lot of reasons (to put it mildly) but radiation shielding isn’t one of them. Proportionally less shielding is needed as one scales up, due to lower surface/volume ratios.
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by mjhay 10mo ago
Used oil and grease theft is fairly valuable to use for biodiesel. Theft has actually been a problem for a while.
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by mjhay 10mo ago
It is amazing sometimes how executives can check common sense at the door, and act like consumers are some separate species from themselves.
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by mjhay 11mo ago
There’s laws in space. Specifically, those of the country (or country of the subject) that launched the satellite.
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by mjhay 11mo ago
You need HUGE radiators to emit a lot of low-temp waste heat into space. That kills this idea right there.
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by mjhay 11mo ago
Depends on the Lisp, but Clojure is in the same order of magnitude as Java for the most part, and SBCL Common Lisp is one of the fastest GC languages.
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by mjhay 11mo ago
Oh no, not the “very intelligent” crypto people!
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by mjhay 11mo ago
Is there a problem with fraudsters donating to OSS projects?
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by mjhay 1y ago
I’m glad to see continued innovation in lake metaphors in the DE space. This does look good though, especially in keeping with DuckDB’s emphasis on simplicity.
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by mjhay 1y ago
I’m surprised they didn’t already have them. They’re a plague in central and northern Alaska due to the permafrost creating standing water.
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by mjhay 1y ago
The API is indeed the big deal. I think a lot of Pandas users don’t realize how awful the API is, because they have never used a proper dataframe library like Polars or dplyr.
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by mjhay 1y ago
Thank you for letting me know about “normalcy bias.” This is a term and concept I previously hadn’t the slightest inkling of. Now I understand the Light of our Machine God.
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by mjhay 1y ago
You might want to listen to what people besides Sam Altman and Ray Kurweil say, at least once in a while.
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by mjhay 1y ago
Even by HN standards, this is just an incredible comment. You’d think it’s satire, but I doubt it.
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by mjhay 1y ago
Electrical power and maybe rack space, but the glass strands of the dark fiber were still perfectly good a number of years later, once demand catches up. Buildings and such still need continuous maintenance. In addition, the actual computat
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by mjhay 1y ago
No. Data science is different than statistics, because it is done on computers. It also uses machine learning algorithms instead of statistical algorithms. These advances, and the shedding of generations of restrictive cruft - frees data sc
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by mjhay 2y ago
Hi, I didn't see this reply before, but I think that's a wonderfully simple way of looking at it. Thanks for the intuition and step-by-step construction. That makes me think of the normal distribution and the heat kernel, which I&
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by mjhay 2y ago
100% of Sundar Pichai could be replaced by an AI.
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by mjhay 2y ago
Great article, but I wish it would have made a more explicit mention of the* central limit theorem (CLT), which I think is what makes the normal distribution "normal." For those not familiar, here is the jist: suppose you have `n`
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by mjhay 2y ago
Malcolm Gladwell is an perpetually contrarian charlatan, which of course means he is beloved by people at the NYT and WaPo. As an example of his nonsense, he was famously a shill for Big Tobacco in the 90's: https://beyondch
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by mjhay 2y ago
True kiwifruit enlightenment happened for me when I realized I can eat the skin along with the rest. One simply needs to pop off the fibrous ends.
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by mjhay 2y ago
I guess there's more social aspects with Peloton that people are into, but it's also easy to hook up a road bike to a fluid trainer and call it a day. Cheaper to get started (even including buying the bike), and no subscription.
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by mjhay 2y ago
You're ignoring the fact that a customer buying from a business incurs an opportunity cost from other things they could have spent money on (or invested). In addition, it merely shifts the money. If someone is thinking about getting Su

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